Divided by a common language.....or do Americans know how to give someone the hairy eyeball?

Granted.

You are being wilfully obtuse.

Thank you.

It's not true, I got it from a speech I saw President Bush do on telly "I'm a merkin, and I'm proud to be a merkin!"

You're not fooling anyone, Hinge.

Myself?

I doubt it.

you can't bullshit a bullshitter

YOU need an avatar.

seppo.

Tell me how. I don't care enough to find it myself.

Do Americans have cackleberries?

Or googs?

Not this one, Do tell!

Hey what do you call a "sofa" - a couch, divan, davernport...?

Never heard of cackleberry, but a quick google search shows it to have been in use in the States and in Canada, so probably not originally Strine.

cackleberrries and googs (or googie eggs) are just eggs, as in out of chickens, I'm sure I've heard them referred to as 'bum fruit' too. We're a crude mob.

Generally we'd use couch or lounge, but sofa's not that rare, a divan is a specific kind and I've only ever heard of a davenport in an old Peanuts cartoon when Lucy and Linus are playing cowboys and indians:
'I got you'
'No you didn't'
'I shot you behind the davenport, and if that isn't fatal I don't know what is'

Always stuck in my mind because I had no idea what it was and had to look it up (even at age 8 I had librarian-like tendencies).

Hingey, I'm guessin' the cartoon was Auzzieized...

I never heard Lucy say Davenport, and I been here a while...

(been wrong once before)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b70fCrC3f1I

how to avatar yourself

with or without a bathrobe, towel or kilt

Rocky this was one the printed comic softbacks (Linus said it), and we wouldn't aussieisize Charles Schulz, any more than Dr Seuss - (it was green and gold eggs and bacon, wasn't it?)

Hey I did a quick google hunt and someone else remembers the same cartoon:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0410c&L=ads-l&P=20637

I call them sofas.

I have only ever heard davenport used in Peanuts cartoons.

A divan in my mind is a sort of sofa bed.

We said couch when I was a little kid at home.

I remember that cartoon!!!

I had a Peanuts friend called Kiffyn Lewis, and I remember us having great puzzlement about waht a davenport was...we figured out it had to mean sofa.